No. 27 in America · Week of November 9, 2026
Host, Fareed Zakaria GPS
Fareed Zakaria hosts CNN's Fareed Zakaria GPS and writes a weekly column for The Washington Post.
Photo: Anders Krusberg / Peabody Awards, CC BY 2.0
Score breakdown
Nine parts, measured fresh each week. This is where Fareed Zakaria's points came from, and the evidence behind each one.
Debate record
Has argued four Munk Debates, on China, Iran, American foreign policy and the liberal international order.
Zakaria was editor of Newsweek International and an editor at large of Time.
He writes on foreign policy and the shape of the international order.
On the record
2017
April 28, 2017
Formal debateWon the audience vote
Against Niall Ferguson · Munk Debates, Toronto
Fareed Zakaria argued against the motion. The con side won the audience vote, swinging 5 percent.
2014
November 5, 2014
Formal debateWon the audience vote
Against Bret Stephens and Robert Kagan · Munk Debates, Toronto
Fareed Zakaria argued against the motion with Anne-Marie Slaughter. The con side won the audience vote, swinging 11 percent.
2012
November 26, 2012
Formal debateWon the audience vote
Against Amos Yadlin and Charles Krauthammer · Munk Debates, Toronto
Fareed Zakaria argued against the motion with Vali Nasr. The con side won the audience vote, swinging 2 percent.
2011
June 17, 2011
Formal debateWon the audience vote
Against Niall Ferguson and David Daokui Li · Munk Debates, Toronto
Fareed Zakaria argued against the motion with Henry Kissinger. The con side won the audience vote, swinging 1 percent.
The people on this list argue in public for a living. At SuperDebate you get the same stage: one question, a clear structure, and a room that votes. It is how you learn to win an argument without making enemies.
